Make mine a venti!

This Make Starbucks Say "Large" map, created with the free Google maping service, might give you ideas for using this tool in your own work.

PA group uses Facebook in school funding fight

The Pennsylvania School Funding Campaign is using social media to spread the word and gather supporters.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pennsylvania-School-Funding-Campaign/124014970478

Twitter Search in Plain English

From CommonCraft.com:

A teacher's primer on Twitter

Twitter 101 from Dr. Chery Takkunen, who blogs as SisuTech.

http://sisutech.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/twitter-101-twitter-basics-on-how-to-get-started/

Social Media at Public Events

Alan Levine discusses how the New Media Consortium used social media at its annual conference. http://cogdogblog.com/2009/06/20/socialmedia-recap-nmc2009/

I'm excited about using a tool like VisualTweets to enable meeting participants to view tweets via a hashtag search. Here's a search for the the NEA RA 2009: http://visibletweets.com/#query=%23neara09&animation=3

Facebook's Easy Virtue

Do you join Facebook cause-related pages? Is this activism or a passing trend?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/01/AR2009070103936.html